HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Question
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Bloody Sunday
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Autocracy
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Serfs
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Socialist Republic
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Detailed explanation-1: -The petition was signed by 135, 000 workmen and outlined some of the problems they identified with working and living under the tsar’s regime. On their way to deliver the petition in a peaceful demonstration, participants were shot in a massacre that would become known as Blood Sunday.
Detailed explanation-2: -In January 1905, steelworkers in St Petersburg, led by Georgy Gapon, drafted a petition demanding improved conditions and some political reforms. The ‘Bloody Sunday’ petition sparked shootings of several hundred workers outside the Winter Palace: Sovereign!
Detailed explanation-3: -About 200 people died and 800 were wounded during the march led by Father George Gapon on 22 January 1905.
Detailed explanation-4: -On January 22, 1905, a group of workers led by the radical priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marched to the czar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to make their demands. Imperial forces opened fire on the demonstrators, killing and wounding hundreds.